6 datasets, all under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0): the UK open mic directory, the UK grassroots venue directory, UK grassroots gig counts from the gig directory, the UK live music glossary, our blog as a text corpus and the figures behind UK Musician Earnings 2026. On top of those, every monthly GX Index rates issue is released as its own dataset. Each one is archived on Zenodo, the open research repository run by CERN, and mirrored on Hugging Face and Kaggle.

The open mic and venue datasets are re-released once a month; the gig-count dataset had its first release in October 2026 and joins the monthly run next. Each release is a new Zenodo version under the same concept DOI, so a link or citation to the concept DOI always reaches the latest data, while the version DOI pins the exact files you used. The glossary and blog corpus are re-released when they change, and each GX Index dataset is published with its monthly issue and not changed afterwards. The live numbers at the top of this page come from the same database, so they show what the next release will contain.

Yes. CC BY 4.0 lets you copy, share, adapt and build on the data for any purpose, including commercial products, research and journalism, as long as you credit “GigXchange, https://gigxchange.app/”, link to the licence and say if you changed anything. The licence covers the data only, not the GigXchange name or logo, so please do not present your product as ours. The full wording is in our terms, section 9b.

Cite the concept DOI shown on each dataset’s Zenodo record, for example: GigXchange (2026). UK Open Mic Directory. Zenodo. A DOI is a permanent identifier that keeps working even if web addresses change; Zenodo registers its DOIs through DataCite, so reference managers can import the full record. If your work depends on exact numbers, cite the version DOI of the release you downloaded as well.

Open mics are researched against each venue’s own pages and listings and re-checked on a rolling cycle - 845 of 1,442 listings are marked verified today, and every row carries its verification level so you can filter on it. Venues are researched from public sources and can claim their page to keep it current. Gigs are collected weekly from public listings and are not individually checked, which is why the gig dataset publishes counts only. How each GX Index figure is built is set out in the methodology.

Because a gig listing names the act, and many acts are individual people. Counts by city, genre and date - with no act or venue names - answer the questions researchers actually ask (how much live music is there, and where) without republishing anyone’s personal details, in line with the data-minimisation approach in the ICO’s guidance on legitimate interests. The individual gigs stay browsable on the gig directory.

No contact details are ever published - no email addresses, phone numbers or staff names - and the gig dataset carries no act or venue names. The venue and open mic datasets describe public businesses and the nights they advertise publicly, which is how they want to be found. Our privacy policy sets out the legal basis, and any venue can ask us to correct or remove its listing.

Kaggle carries CSV files with a column-by-column data card. Hugging Face carries the directory, glossary and blog datasets as JSON Lines files that load in one line with the Hugging Face datasets library. The open mic and venue datasets also include a GeoJSON file for mapping. The directory datasets ship a datasheet that follows the Datasheets for Datasets structure - motivation, composition, collection, uses, distribution, maintenance and known limits.

Email support@gigxchange.app or use “Report a change” on the listing itself. We review every correction, and the fix is carried by the next monthly release - earlier versions stay archived on Zenodo, so anything already cited remains reproducible. No errata have been recorded yet.